Thanks for reading today’s edition of the Daily Briefing, assuming you received it at all given the Microsoft outage. Listen to today’s edition of our World News podcast to learn more about it, and read on for Friday’s big headlines.
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- It’s not just you. Microsoft’s Outlook, Teams and Copilot have been down for an unusually long time. Microsoft said server problems caused the outage and that it was not aware of any malicious activity.
- White House officials are discussing whether to push out Howard Lutnick after lawmakers criticized the commerce secretary over not doing enough to restrict AI chip shipments to China.
- Donald Trump pulled his vice president off the Iran beat and onto alleged crime and corruption in Democrat-run cities and states. JD Vance blamed the war for the Republicans’ midterm-election losses.
- Rescue teams found no more victims of a New York City apartment-building collapse that killed eight people including two children. The city will examine five companies associated with an adjacent Brooklyn construction site and more than 100 other sites connected to those companies.
- The gunman who killed one person and injured four others in Washington, DC was embroiled in a longstanding dispute with his condo association over mold and moisture in his apartment. Matt Lambert appeared to have deliberately targeted the building manager, who died from his wounds, before killing himself.
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Federal immigration agents swept into this rural corner of Kansas in late September and detained 104 people, according to the local US Attorney. On Election Day, voters made themselves heard.
Kansas elected a Democrat to the US Senate for the first time in nearly a century when Adam Hamilton ousted incumbent Republican Roger Marshall. The three counties most affected by the ICE raids swung toward Hamilton by more than 20 points on average from Donald Trump’s 2024 vote share, results compiled by Reuters and USA Today showed.
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Did you know that the first finance minister of the modern Iraqi state was Sassoon Heskel, a Jew born in Baghdad? His portrait and those of many others hang on the walls of Baghdad’s first Jewish museum, offering tributes and a glimpse into a once integral part of life in Iraq that has all but disappeared.
"I saw people’s interest in this subject, and I hope it is a seed of goodness that grows in the future, because the Jews were among the founders of this country," said Baghdad resident Nabil Abdul Hameed. "I hope those in charge will think about bringing the Jews back. The Jews have property, history and heritage. I wish they would come and take part in the revival of the country."
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